How to move the wordpress site from test url to main url? [duplicate]

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Easily Move a WordPress Install from Development to Production?

I Setuped a Wordpress site on http://domainname.com/test/ now I want to move everything to main domain http://domainname.com/

How to do this without loosing anything? and most important thing http://domainname.com is live site so moving should take very less time if possible.

Any suggestion would be appreciated?

Wordpress version is 3.0.3 and Hosting is Dreamhost. I have access to everything. FTP, Database.

Answer 1

I personaly do that in 3 steps:

1) in the admin i change both wordpress and site adresses from 'domainname.com/test/' to ' domainname.com/'. After saving it'll break the site, no worries.

2) i move ftp files from the /test/ folder to the root one (gives back the admin and site).

3) i finally change database datas that refer to the old url '.../test/' by using the plugin search and replace. Gives back all the pictures uploaded for exemple.

Did it again this morning, works fine. And as pootzko says, backup backup, you never know what can happen.

Answer 2

1. BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP (of root that you are moving into, and of test you are moving from)
2. take a look here

that's all.. pretty easy. just follow the steps in the link and nothing will be lost.

for all the data that's in your root ( http://domainname.com/ ) - just move it to another folder, or delete it all after you backed it all up. if it's all on the same server - it will all be done very quickly since it's all just local moving of files...

Answer 3

You can actually just leave your files in that subfolder and follow these steps per the codex.

1. In the general settings, change your Site Address (URL), not the Wordpress Address URL, to http://example.com/ and save.
2. Copy (NOT MOVE!) the index.php and .htaccess files from your subdirectory into the root directory of your site.
3. Open your root directory's index.php file in a text editor
4. Change the line that says: require('./wp-blog-header.php'); to the following, using your directory name for the WordPress core files: require('./test/wp-blog-header.php');
5. Login to the new location. It might now be http://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/
6. If you have set up Permalinks, go to the Permalinks panel and update your Permalink structure. WordPress will automatically update your .htaccess file if it has the appropriate file permissions. If WordPress can't write to your .htaccess file, it will display the new rewrite rules to you, which you should manually copy into your .htaccess file (in the same directory as the main index.php file.)

Answer 4

There is a really great clone software that works as a back up and you can move the whole blog as is anywhere you want. It takes just a matter of minutes. You can get it here: https://fladlien.infusionsoft.com/go/wptwin/edakehur/

I hope that helps. I have used to move sites, back sites up, help others move sites. If you only need to move this one, it may not be for you, but if this is something you will do from time to time, it is a fantastic tool to use to move (and back up) wordpress blogs.